Cabinet Demirel V

Demirel V
41st Cabinet of the Republic of Turkey
Prime Minister	Suleyman Demirel
choice	5th June 1977
Appointed by	President Fahri Korutürk
education	July 21, 1977
The End	5th January 1978
Duration	0 years and 168 days
predecessor	Ecevit II cabinet
successor	Cabinet Ecevit III
composition
Party (s)	AP , MSP MHP
representation
Great National Assembly of Turkey	226/450

The Demirel V cabinet was the 41st government of Turkey , which was headed by Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel from July 21, 1977 to January 5, 1978 .

In the elections in September 1977 , Bülent Ecevit and the social democratic Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) won 41.4 percent of the vote, narrowly missing an absolute majority. A CHP minority cabinet followed. Suleyman Demirel's conservative-liberal Adalet Partisi (AP) received 36.4 percent of the vote. The right-wing parties lost votes and the Islamic Millî Selamet Partisi also lost dramatically.

The years that followed, up to the military coup in 1980, were dominated by the ongoing rivalry between Ecevit and Demirel, who repeatedly tried to rule with minority cabinets, and the street terror of right-wing extremist groups. In 1977 alone, more than 800 people were killed by right-wing extremist terror. In the meantime, the Alevis religious community was also caught in the crosshairs of the Gray Wolves .

Ecevit's government was short-lived. The Prime Minister lost a vote of confidence in July 1977. Demirel forged a new edition of the "Cabinet of the Nationalist Front" with MSP and MHP , which together had a one-vote majority in parliament. The price for this was high: the two smaller parties with a total of 40 MPs could provide as many ministers as the AP with 189 MPs. This government also lasted only a few months: after the disappointing performance of the governing parties in the local elections in December 1977, the coalition broke up and Ecevit tried again to establish a CHP minority government.

minister

41st Government of the Republic of Turkey,
Demirel V Cabinet - July 21, 1977 to January 5, 1978

title	Surname	Political party	Term of office
Prime Minister	Suleyman Demirel	AP
Deputy Prime Minister
	Necmettin Erbakan	MSP
	Alparslan Turkis	MHP
Minister of State
	Seyfi Öztürk	AP
	Suleyman Arif Emre	MSP
	Sadi Somuncuoğu	MHP
	Ali Şevki Erek Ekrem Ceyhun	AP	July 21, 1977 - November 1, 1977 November 11, 1977 - January 5, 1978
Minister of Justice	Necmettin Cevheri	AP
Defense Minister	Sadettin Bilgiç Turhan Kapanlı	AP
Interior minister	Korkut Özal	MSP
Foreign minister	İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil	AP
Finance minister	Cihat Bilgehan	AP
Minister of Education	Nahit Menteşe	AP
Minister for Public Works	Selahattin Kılıç	AP
Minister of Commerce	Agah Oktar Güner	MHP
Minister for Health and Welfare	Cengiz Gokcek	MHP
Minister for Customs and Monopolies	Gun Sazak	MHP
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock	Fehim Adak	MSP
Minister of Transport	Yılmaz Ergenekon	AP
Minister of Labor	Fehmi Cumalıoğlu	MSP
Minister for Social Security	Turhan Kapanlı İlhami Ertem	AP	July 21, 1977 - October 28, 1977 November 12, 1977 - January 5, 1978
Minister for Industry and Technology	Oğuzhan Asiltürk	MSP
Tourism Minister	İskender Cenap Ege	AP
Minister of Culture	Avni Alyol	AP
Minister of Construction and Settlement	Recai Kutan	MSP
Minister for Energy and Natural Resources	Kamran Inan	AP
Minister for Village Affairs and Cooperatives	Turgut Yücel	AP
Forest Minister	Sabahattin Savcı	MSP
Minister for Youth and Sport	Önal Şakar Ali Şevki Erek	AP	July 21, 1977 - October 14, 1977 November 1, 1977 - January 5, 1978

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Matthes Buhbe: Turkey. Politics and Contemporary History . (= Volume 2, Studies on Politics and Society in the Middle East ), Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
2. ↑ 41st Government of the Republic of Turkey , Grand National Assembly of Turkey, accessed on March 28, 2019